Rudolph Bergh
Danish zoologist
Died when: 84 years 278 days (1017 months)Star Sign: Libra
Rudolph Bergh (15 October 1824 – 20 July 1909), full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Bergh, was a Danish physician and malacologist.He worked in Copenhagen.
As a doctor his speciality was sexually transmitted diseases.In Copenhagen a hospital and a street are named after him.
Bergh was also an active malacologist, i.e. a zoologist who studies molluscs, in particular the nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropods.
He had well over 90 publications in this field and took part in a scientific expedition to Indonesia.He named and described numerous species of nudibranchs.
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